After eight decades, central Pa.'s largest private company is moving out of Harrisburg

One of the Harrisburg area's oldest and largest companies is about to make a major change.

D&H Distributing in Harrisburg is one of the largest private companies in Pennsylvania at $3.9 billion, ranked fifth in the state and 109th in the country by Forbes.

According to the company its revenue increased last year by 21 percent. The technology distributor added that some of its largest gains were in categories like digital signage solutions, network security, cloud applications, workstations and premium notebooks.

In a time when some of the largest names in the business world have closed their doors, the company, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, has continually increased its revenue. The distributor, which employs around 1,250 people in the U.S. and Canada, plans to continue to focus on cloud-based collaboration solutions, videoconferencing products, cybersecurity and connected devices from things like voice-activated speakers and Fitbits.

Daniel Urie, PennLive

D&H Distributing relocated to its current headquarters on Seventh Street in Harrisburg in 1952. Note: the photo says 2535 N. 7th St. but, the company today lists its address as 2525 N. 7th st.

The company has been in business since 1918 and relocated to Cameron Street in Harrisburg in 1936. It has been in the same location at 2525 N. Seventh St., Harrisburg, since it opened there on Aug. 6, 1952.

The company employs about 750 people at its Harrisburg headquarters. And its co-presidents, Michael and Dan Schwab, said that staying in that location has always been important to them. They have bought and demolished neighboring buildings on Seventh Street in order to expand and increase parking. They installed a solar field next door and said they helped developed the field across the street.

“The city of Harrisburg has been a very good partner to D&H,” Michael Schwab said.